Example sentences of "[vb infin] [noun prp] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While chairman and chief executive , Peter Bonfield , said he is still ‘ not seeing the wide green shoots ’ of recovery , he does expect ICL to stay in the black during the coming year . |
| 2 | He went hastily towards the door ; he did n't want Martin to come into the room because then he might break down and say things about his mother that were best left unsaid . |
| 3 | For instance , they would like HMI to comment on the increase in class sizes in primary education , the scandal that one in four of our children are now taught in classes of 30 and over , and the fact that 10,000 of our children in primary education are taught in classes of 40 and more . |
| 4 | A no vote by the Danes in their referendum , due in May or April , would condemn Britain to remain in the slow lane of a two-speed Europe . |
| 5 | Impact ‘ The long-ball game is no good to me and it wo n't enable England to succeed in the 1994 World Cup in America . ’ |
| 6 | The hour of Britain 's total defeat was at hand , and Winston Churchill would soon abandon England to preside over the ruins from the safety of his Canadian dominion . |
| 7 | Shaw 's book , however , did encourage Eliot to think of the modern in terms of the ancient , of ‘ creative evolution ’ , of ‘ Darwin' , ‘ biology ’ , and the ‘ ultimate questions ’ raised by ‘ the attempt to expose a panorama of human history ‘ as far as thought can reach ’ . |
| 8 | The talks had been undertaken by the English-speaking provinces with a view to agreeing a package of reforms which would induce Quebec to remain within the Canadian confederation . |
| 9 | He reiterated that a planned new law on secession [ see below ] would allow Lithuania to secede on the basis of a referendum and " the realization of interests both of Lithuania and the USSR " , but commented : " My idea is to preserve the union on the basis of a different approach to each republic [ and ] a new union treaty . " |
| 10 | Anyway , I 'll get Jannie to look in the local agents and keep her ears open . ’ |
| 11 | Von Ribbentrop said that if Poland would allow Danzig to return to the Reich , Germany would be happy to guarantee Poland access to the road , rail and port facilities . |
| 12 | I mean our , the more I think about it I think the main , we might even go to Germany to see my sister , so it might be next year , but I ca n't get Tony to talk at the moment , I do n't know erm , |
| 13 | He did n't want Eileen to lie in the Catholic cemetery in Naas , since the place reserved for the Arbuthnots was forbidden to her . |
| 14 | No true supporter of any country would want Wales to remain in the doldrums , but would rather see them return to a competitive level because it is good for the game . |
| 15 | She said it would help Sarah to get over the loss , and it did . ’ |
| 16 | I think I 'll ask Willi to go into the side studio and see exactly what he 's up to . |
| 17 | Well I think if I could ask James to help on the geographic spread of the profits overall and then I could perhaps supplement that afterwards on the oil services . |